#1Politics & Law
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
1879–1964Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer
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Famous people · Maple, Vaughan
Of the 7 famous people born in Maple, an unusual share are athletes
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook is the best known, with articles in 32 languages. More than half were born since 1970, 4 in all. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 3.5 for every 10,000 residents. The oldest name on the list belongs to Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, born in 1879, the newest to Adam Mascherin, born in 1998.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
32 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1879
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Youngest
1998
Adam Mascherin
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Maple’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Maple’s famous people were born
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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What Maple is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.5 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
The best known
Born in Maple
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Sports
Lucas Lessio
born 1993Canadian ice hockey player
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#3Sports
Phillip Di Giuseppe
born 1993Canadian professional ice hockey player
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Maple
4 more, 2 of them athletes.
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Questions about famous people from Maple
Who is the most famous person from Maple?
The top name is Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Lucas Lessio and Phillip Di Giuseppe.
How many famous people were born in Maple?
Wikidata has 9 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Maple known for?
They make up 57% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Maple?
The earliest is Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, born in 1879, and the latest birth listed is 1998.
Who counts as from Maple?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Maple’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Phillip Di Giuseppe: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).